On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language
The Mixtec language is one of the main native languages in Mexico. In general, due to urbanization, discrimination, and limited attempts to promote the culture, the native languages are disappearing. Most of the information available about the Mixtec language is in written form as in dictionaries wh...
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| description | The Mixtec language is one of the main native languages in Mexico. In general, due to urbanization, discrimination, and limited attempts to promote the culture, the native languages are disappearing. Most of the information available about the Mixtec language
is in written form as in dictionaries which, although including examples about how to pronounce the Mixtec words, are not as reliable
as listening to the correct pronunciation from a native speaker. Formal acoustic resources, as speech corpora, are almost non-existent
for the Mixtec, and no speech technologies are known to have been developed for it. This paper presents the development of the
following resources for the Mixtec language: (1) a speech database of traditional narratives of the Mixtec culture spoken by a native
speaker (labelled at the phonetic and orthographic levels by means of spectral analysis) and (2) a native speaker-adaptive automatic speech
recognition (ASR) system (trained with the speech database) integrated with a Mixtec-to-Spanish/Spanish-to-Mixtec text translator.
The speech database, although small and limited to a single variant, was reliable enough to build the multiuser speech application
which presented a mean recognition/translation performance up to 94.36% in experiments with non-native speakers (the target users). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f5ff235852cb422ea851dd3a5be1639c2025-02-03T01:03:48ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2013-01-01201310.1155/2013/170649170649On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec LanguageSantiago-Omar Caballero-Morales0Technological University of the Mixteca, Road to Acatlima K.m. 2.5, 69000 Huajuapan de León, OAX, MexicoThe Mixtec language is one of the main native languages in Mexico. In general, due to urbanization, discrimination, and limited attempts to promote the culture, the native languages are disappearing. Most of the information available about the Mixtec language is in written form as in dictionaries which, although including examples about how to pronounce the Mixtec words, are not as reliable as listening to the correct pronunciation from a native speaker. Formal acoustic resources, as speech corpora, are almost non-existent for the Mixtec, and no speech technologies are known to have been developed for it. This paper presents the development of the following resources for the Mixtec language: (1) a speech database of traditional narratives of the Mixtec culture spoken by a native speaker (labelled at the phonetic and orthographic levels by means of spectral analysis) and (2) a native speaker-adaptive automatic speech recognition (ASR) system (trained with the speech database) integrated with a Mixtec-to-Spanish/Spanish-to-Mixtec text translator. The speech database, although small and limited to a single variant, was reliable enough to build the multiuser speech application which presented a mean recognition/translation performance up to 94.36% in experiments with non-native speakers (the target users).http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/170649 |
| spellingShingle | Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language The Scientific World Journal |
| title | On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language |
| title_full | On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language |
| title_fullStr | On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language |
| title_short | On the Development of Speech Resources for the Mixtec Language |
| title_sort | on the development of speech resources for the mixtec language |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/170649 |
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